Installation guide

 Optimal Placement monitors the value of "Consumed" and "Actually Consumed" in
resource pools, and, when it excesses or goes down its thresholds, this function
reports the events of resource pool consumption to SigmaSystemCenter policy
control.
 Out-of-Band Management
Out-of-Band Management receives PET directly from BMC of managed machines
and manages them to detect abnormality and failure in the hardware. Out-of-Band
Management can detect an event corresponds to the hardware failure event that is
detected by NEC ESMPRO Manager and NEC ESMPRO Agent. A difference is
Out-of-Band Management does not use services on OS. Therefore, Out-of-Band
Management can detect hardware failure events even when OS cannot be
accessed.
Out-of-Band Management monitors voltages and temperatures of chassis, and
predicts that hardware will be in critical failure status to notify the policy control
processing of SigmaSystemCenter of HW Predictive events
Note: A managed machine where NEC ESMPRO Agent is installed does not send
PET but sends NEC ESMPRO Agent's reports. However, both NEC ESMPRO
Agent's reports and PET might be sent depending on the timing of hardware
failures. Even if this is the case, Out-of-Band Management events will not occur on
the machine managed by NEC ESMPRO Agent.
 Monitoring through Microsoft Failover Cluster
If a node of a Hyper-V virtual machine server or a Hyper-V virtual machine
managed by Microsoft Failover Cluster and SigmaSystemCenter,
SigmaSystemCenter obtains events from Microsoft Failover Cluster and notifies
the policy control processing of SigmaSystemCenter of the events.
To make SigmaSystemCenter work with the Microsoft Failover Cluster as the
above mentioned, add the Hyper-V cluster as a subsystem.
Microsoft Failover Cluster is a high-available system, so the virtual machines
running on it are also high-available. For example, when a virtual machine fails,
Microsoft Failover Cluster failovers the virtual machine to another node.
SigmaSystemCenter obtains Microsoft Failover Cluster events such as node down
or virtual machine failure, updates the database, and notifies system
administrators of the events.
Following subsections explains the events that these products or components can
detect and the checking procedure of detected events.